Flavor report: Hidden ingredients

The way a food tastes and smells is important when it comes to choosing what we eat. Food companies engineer foods to ensure they taste and smell appealing by adding flavors and spices. These can be natural substances or chemicals synthesized in a laboratory. They can be a single ingredient—like vanilla extract, dried basil, or a specific chemical—or blends of many ingredients formulated and developed by professional flavorists.

Food industry hides unsafe ingredients behind vague terms like ‘flavor’

Manufacturers hide thousands of food chemicals—some deemed unsafe in other countries—from consumers and the FDA via vague ingredient labels and lax oversight.

The Facts on Fat: The Importance of Saturated Fat Limits in the Dietary Guidelines

The Facts on Fat: The Importance of Saturated Fat Limits in the Dietary Guidelines

CSPI in 2025: Advancing food safety & public health for all

Your support helped CSPI’s efforts to ban harmful food additives, safeguard infant foods, improve retail policies, and restore funds for scientific research. Thank you for making 2025 a healthier year for all!

5 things we want to see in the 2025 Dietary Guidelines

CSPI's wish list for the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for added sugars, saturated fat, sweetened beverages, alcohol consumption, low-fat milk, and more.

Cozy bowls and power salads for peak fall and winter flavor

Get cozy with fabulous, flavorful soups, stews, bowls, and salads from The Healthy Cook—delicious, comforting, and fast.

Additives in the Jan./Feb. 2026 yogurt chart

The products denoted with a ● symbol in the Nutrition Action Jan./Feb. 2026 yogurt chart contain the following additives that we rate as "Avoid" in our Chemical Cuisine guide to food additive safety.

Additives noted in Nutrition Action articles

The FDA rarely forces manufacturers to recall dangerous medical devices, watchdog report finds

Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing machines and never ordered a recall.